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The Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness seeks to ensure that people living in Vermont have a safe, stable, affordable home, and — if homelessness does occur — it is brief, rare, and non-recurring and those experiencing homelessness are treated with dignity and respect.

VPR’s Vermont Edition Covers Emergency and Transitional Housing Issues

Yesterday’s Vermont Edition took a look at problems of homelessness in Vermont and the difficulty of finding affordable and safe emergency housing for families in need.  The program focused on the new Harbor Place temporary housing facility, spending issues with emergency housing vouchers, as well as discussing other issues concerning emergency and transitional housing. VPR’s Jane Lindholm spoke spoke …

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America’s Homeless Kids Crisis: Vermont Sees Big Jump

New report from The Atlantic highlights the spike in homelessness among American schoolchildren: The number of homeless students in the United States has hit a record high, according to new data from the Department of Education. The raw numbers are shocking: in the 2011 school year, 1,168,354 homeless children were enrolled in preschools and K-12 programs. Even more disturbing …

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Vermont Council on Homelessness Survey Needs Input

The Vermont Council on Homelessness‘ Supportive Housing Workgroup has created two surveys designed to obtain information to better understand and assess the issues and challenges that may arise both for clients and tenants and for housing providers.  These surveys directly respond to the Council’s charge to make progress on expanding the capacity of programs to provide voluntary supportive …

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